She worked as a staffer in the California legislature, served on the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and the State Coastal Commission, and was appointed as the first woman Director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. She consulted on sustainable forest management in southeast Asia, and for 11 years attended the Conference of the Parties (COPs) of the UNFCCC climate negotiations as an observer.
Now retired, Andrea serves on the boards of the Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University, the Pacific Forest Trust, and recently the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. She participated in early development of the California carbon market, promoting credible standards for forest offsets. She now sits on the Offset Protocol Task Force to review options for California’s cap and trade system.
She and her husband Don (recently passed away) have been active community members in the north coast since moving to Arcata in the early 1970s.
